In this article I would like to appear as a futurologist to consider modern Web 2.0 the most salient and fascinating trends. On carrying out certain analysis, on rubbing shoulders with software vendors and marketing specialists as well as on assessing various Internet projects state-of-the-art I defined top nine Web 2.0 trends.

1. Web 3.0 age is not going to come yet
People increasingly discuss the point that Web 2.0 concept has outlived it usefulness and that now we are on the threshold of Web 3.0 age coming. As for me, that is not the case for at least two strong reasons.
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Today I post the next part of the post “Social Media Wolves”. You can read the first part of the article here.

6. Forum spam
Internet forums are justly considered the first robin of Web 2.0 technology. Being the integral part of traditional Internet, forums correspond to Web 2.0 philosophy in its very essence that is the user generated content. No wonder that the forums have become the first hunting field for social media wolves.

The social media wolves’ forum activities may be represented as either direct spam or veiled forum talks accompanied by putting some links. In the former case, special script spreads through forum base the posts of explicitly advertising nature. However, this technique is rather inefficient as more than 90 per cent of such posts are usually deleted by moderators. In the latter case, wolves place their ads in forums as just the routine users’ discussions. Expertly treated, such allocations are generally perceived as matter-of-course comments.
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They are known as spammers and Black Hats of Social Media Marketing. But in fact they are just wolves, Social Media Wolves being hungry, ruthless and highly aggressive animals.

They are constantly stalking Social Media for more new gains. The pursuit of easy profit develops in different ways: through Internet traffic, batch getting of links with keywords, by selling cheap Rolex imitations or by tricks with sending fee-paying SMS.

They are hated by all cyberspace, but despite all that, social media wolves continue attacking social media and its users.

So below are given top ten “black” techniques allowing wolves to subsist.
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